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May 3, 2011

Date Published:

May 3, 2011

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Geraldine Brooks builds her historical novel CALEB'S CROSSING around the life of Caleb Cheeshateaumauk, a member of the Wampanoag tribe native to the area now known as Martha's Vineyard, who became the first American Indian to graduate from Harvard University. English settlers spreading out from the early Puritan colonies encounter Caleb's people, and he is taken under the tutelage of a minister who teaches Greek and Latin. This stranger in their household attracts the attention of the minister's daughter Bethia, who forms a strong connection with the hopeful student which draws both of them across an extraordinary cultural divide.